George Washington (After Gilbert Stuart), 19th C. Oil on Canvas gift for sportsman 10 3/4" with handle

10 3/4" with handle

3/4"long  x 1/2"

and would work as a wall-hung vase or a small planter

with beautifully turned fruitwood ends

so would have worked more like a marionette--though his long flat feet seem definitely designed for tapping

George Washington (After Gilbert Stuart), 19th C. Oil on Canvas gift for sportsman 10 3/4" with handleFound just in the time for the 4th of July, this folk portrait of George Washington, based I believe of the earliest of Gilbert Stuart's Washington portraits: the Gibbs Channing Avery portrait, c. 1795. I love variations on a theme, and portraits of Washington are a great example many many out there, all a little different, and of interest at least as much for what they reveal about the painter as the subject. I love the glow y softness of this one,